#rant

African leaders should not turn the continent into a giant collector of donations and loans from wealthy nations—they must find other plausible means to help established their economic security so as to minimize poverty. This incoherent blunder on the mainland must be scrutinized. ↗

— Duop Chak Wuol

#economics-philosophy #grant #leadership #loans #leadership

We need a vibrant Medicaid program and strategies to expand affordable access to health care for all, especially for the specialty care services that community health centers do not provide. ↗

— Jan Schakowsky

#affordable #aid program #care #centers #community

Granted there are only seven stories in the universe. And I agree with that. But give me a great variation of those stories. And literate. ↗

— Debra Winger

#give #give me #granted #great #i

The will to work of everyone in the country is the best guarantee of national survival. ↗

— Bhumibol Adulyadej

#country #everyone #guarantee #national #survival

To be ignorant of the lives of the most celebrated men of antiquity is to continue in a state of childhood all our days. ↗

— Plutarch

#celebrated #childhood #continue #days #ignorant

There can be no tyrants where there are no slaves. ↗

— Jose Rizal

#tyrants #where

Students now arrive at the university ignorant and cynical about our political heritage, lacking the wherewithal to be either inspired by it or seriously critical of it. ↗

— Allan Bloom

#arrive #critical #cynical #either #heritage

Numbers still gave Astrid pleasure. That was the great thing about numbers: it required no faith to believe that two plus two equaled four. And math never, ever condemned you for your thoughts and desires. ↗

— Michael Grant

#fear #gone #math #michael-grant #numbers

Quentin Tarantino asked me to work with him but there is no way I am going to do that while Matthew Vaughn is working in film. ↗

— Claudia Schiffer

#asked #film #going #him #i

The right to procreate is not guaranteed, explicitly or implicitly, by the Constitution. ↗

— Robert Bork

#explicitly #guaranteed #implicitly #procreate #right